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Company Screenings

Our quick and cost effective screenings service helps you to ensure that partners, suppliers, sponsors or potential investments will not pose a reputational risk or clash with your own ethics, values and mission.

Single company screenings cost from as little as £225 + VAT.

Type of Screenings we provide

  • Supplier and partner screenings for ethical businesses
  • Donor and supplier screenings for NGOs and charities
  • Shareholder analysis for investors

Current and past Screenings projects include:  

  • Screening suppliers for an ethical luxury retailer.
  • Screening contractors for global human rights organisations.
  • Raising awareness of the environmental and worker safety records of companies running the London Underground for the Mayor of London's office.

What Screenings cover

Screenings can be tailored to meet your ethical criteria, in line with your ethical sponsorship policy, prioritising those categories from our environmental, human rights, animal welfare and politics subject areas that are of more importance to you.

A standard Screening will include:

  • Company overview
  • Ownership 
  • Overall ethical rating according to our unique Ethiscore ratings system 
  • Criticisms and concerns
  • Database records giving abstracts of issues, under specific ethical categories

Research sources 

An ethical screening draws together information from a range of sources, including:

  • Data from 25 years of research in our Corporate Critic database.
  • Checks on a company's ownership.
  • Press search of mainstream, business and campaign group sources.

Prices and ordering

Quoted prices are per Company Screening. Up to 40 abstracts per company report will be produced.

Standard Company Screening
10 working day turnaround: £225 (+ VAT)

Express Company Screening
5 working day turnaround: £325 (+ VAT)

ASAP Company Screening
Under 3 working days turnaround: £425 (+ VAT)

A discretionary supplementary fee of £75+VAT will be applied for the delivery of screenings on companies with an annual turnover above $5bn.

Bespoke Screenings
If your organisation needs to focus on specific subjects, or those not covered by our main categories, or needs more detailed screenings for particular companies, contact us to see if we can help.

We can also review your company's policies and practices against our bespoke ethical rating system - check out our 'What's my company's ethical rating?' page for more information.

 

To order a screening or to find out more please call +44 (0)161 226 2929, and ask for 'screenings or consultancy', or email screenings@ethicalconsumer.org